J.S. Mill & Mormon Polygamy in the Canadian Context
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the legal treatment of Mormon polygamy in Canadian society through the lens of John Stuart Mill’s theory of liberty. It outlines the essential elements of his theory, and compares his response to the practice with those of modern liberal societies. The author argues that although the Canadian criminal prohibition on polygamy adequately reflects the “harm principle” in Mill’s theory, it undermines the individuality of those who consensually engage in the practice. The paper suggests that the Canadian legislation on polygamy ought to balance regulation of the harm that often stems from the practice with respect for the individuality of those who consent to such unions. The author recommends a number of ways in which the Canadian government’s approach to the practice can conform with the liberal principles of Mill’s theory.\nCATHERINE PHELPS is a third year Huron University College student pursuing an Honors Specialization in Political Science and a Minor in French Studies. She particularly enjoys learning about political theory and constitutional law. Ms. Phelps hopes to go on to study law after her time at Huron.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".